By Kathryn Karnaze, Medill, Immigrant Connect As a widow with four kids, Amal faces extreme financial, emotional, and physical stress. She and her kids, all under the age of fifteen, have been living in Skokie, a Chicago suburb, for the past seven months. Previously,...

By Matt Zdun, Medill, Immigrant Connect “We saw 900 instances of hate across the country against Muslims, Asians and other groups in the 10 days following the election,” Brandon Lee estimates. As Communications & Research Coordinator for Asian Americans Advancing...

By Brian Hofmann, Medill, Immigrant Connect The Windex and toast-smelling apartment belonging to the Gomez family* is a cramped, one-bedroom, three-floor walk-up, two blocks north of 26th Street in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. The family had immigrated,...

By Kathryn Karnaze, Medill, Immigrant Connect Suzanne Akhras Sahloul started the Syrian Community Network in 2015 in the hope that Chicago would come together to give Syrian refugees the support they weren’t getting, especially since half the refugees who’ve...

By Nicki Kaplan, Medill, Immigrant Connect Shik Lee and Irina Dragounskaia came to the United States in the 1990s for better work and a fresh start. They came from different worlds and never would have expected that their paths might cross in such a large melting pot....

By Matt Zdun, Medill, Immigrant Connect “It’s rare to have a five to nothing vote around here,” said Lacey Beaty, one of five city councilors in Beaverton, Oregon. But that is exactly what happened on Jan. 10. Beaty said that after three weeks of discussion and...